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Windows Community Toolkit Update Improves Controls

The Windows Community Toolkit advanced to version 8.1, adding new features, improving existing controls and making dependency changes.

ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI Updated as .NET 9 Nears

The web-dev ASP.NET Core framework and Xamarin.Forms' successor .NET MAUI received the lion's share of dev attention in the seventh preview of .NET 9 as Microsoft preps for a November launch at .NET Conf 2024.

.NET Community Toolkit Gets Native AOT and .NET 8 Support

The .NET Community Toolkit is Microsoft's latest dev tooling to get native ahead-of-time compilation, continuing a years-long push for that capability across the board.

GitHub Copilot Tops Research Report on AI Code Assistants

GitHub topped research firm's Gartner's inaugural Magic Quadrant report on AI code assistants, with Copilot leading in both completeness of vision and ability to execute.

VS Code Tool for Azure Machine Learning Ships After 7-Year Preview

"You can use your favorite VS Code setup, either desktop or web, to build, train, deploy, debug, and manage machine learning models with Azure Machine Learning from within VS Code."

Newly Open-Sourced '.NET Smart Components' Demoed at AI Event

Yesterday's .NET Conf Focus on AI online event highlighted Microsoft's latest/greatest AI dev tooling, including the newly open-sourced .NET Smart Components.

Content Exclusion Is Latest of Many New Visual Studio Copilot Features

The ability for admins to configure Copilot to ignore specific files in repositories or organizations joins a raft of other enhancements that affect everything from commit histories to pull requests to targeted slash commands and more.

Microsoft Spotlights .NET 9, Cloud in First Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 Preview

With Visual Studio 2022 v17.11 shipping this week, the first preview of the next edition sees Microsoft emphasizing support for the coming .NET 9 and cloud development with Aspire.

Visual Studio 2022 v17.11 Ships 'Shaped by Your Feedback' (and AI)

Microsoft's Mads Kristensen heavily emphasized the community contributions that helped the dev team ship the brand-new Visual Studio 2022 version 17.11, which includes new features, improvements and fixes across the board spawned from the ideas of users.

VSLive! Dev Conference Tip Leads to New IDE Extension: Sql Formatter

"During the VS Live conference last week, it was brought to my attention that Visual Studio has no support for formatting SQL files."

Copilot Rolled Out to Your Org? Better Check User Activity

Many organizations jumped on the Gen AI bandwagon in a big way, but now that it has fallen into the "trough of disillusionment," it might be time to check copilot usage to control costs, check for inappropriate or risky behavior and so on.

VS Code v1.92: Pick Your Browser, Use OpenAI's GPT-4o AI Model

A highlight of the latest release of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code open-source-based code editor is the ability to pick your default browser for opening links, along with access to new advanced AI model.

ABP Ships Community Edition of Open Source .NET Dev Framework

Flying under the radar below Visual Studio, VS Code, JetBrains Rider and other big names in the .NET-centric IDE space is the open-source ABP, which just shipped a new community edition.

With .NET 6 Support Ending, Security Vulnerabilities Loom

While many Visual Studio developers are awaiting the debut of .NET 9 in November, they might want to pay attention to a looming security issue with .NET 6, which will reach end of support at the same time, perhaps leaving apps open to cybersecurity attacks.

Semantic Kernel AI SDK Gets Autonomous Agents (Experimental)

As AI matures, agents are one of the most significant areas of development, and Microsoft's Semantic Kernel AI dev tooling is getting them, as an experiment for now.

'GitHub Models' AI Playground Debuts with Llama 3.1, GPT-4o and More

GitHub Models is unveiled as a limited public beta to help platform's 100-million-plus developers try out the latest/greatest AI models from a range of providers.

Java, Python Tooling Advances in VS Code

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code dev teams for Java and Python announced Gradle enhancements for the former and improved Python discovery for the latter.

Copilot in Visual Studio Will Get Access to Org Knowledge Bases

Visual Studio devs who have become dependent upon GitHub Copilot AI assistance will have to wait a while for a hot new feature already available in VS Code.

Microsoft Going Small in Semantic Kernel AI Dev Tooling

In revealing future plans for its Semantic Kernel AI dev tooling, Microsoft said it's going small -- at lease in terms of AI model size.

Microsoft Previews AI Prompt Playground for VS Code: Prompty

Prompt engineering positions might not be pulling down $335,000 salaries anymore, but Microsoft is continuing to pump out AI model prompting guidance, with a recent effort being Prompty, described as an intuitive prompt playground delivered in a Visual Studio Code extension.

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